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Cybersecurity

Legacy systems are the Achilles’ heel of critical infrastructure cybersecurity

July 8, 2024

Via: CSO Online

China and other nation-state bad actors are probing the defenses of critical infrastructure worldwide and legacy or outdated systems are prime targets. The time to mitigate that risk is now. Rare is the element of critical infrastructure ecosystem that doesn’t […]


Industry, Workforce

Empower your workforce to embrace AI

July 5, 2024

Via: CIO

Turn AI from a challenge to an opportunity for your people to feel and work their best. AI. It’s a technology that’s seemingly everywhere and that everyone’s talking about. So why isn’t AI already widely adopted for work? And how […]


Federal, Policy

Democrats in Congress are torn between backing Biden for president and sounding the alarm

July 3, 2024

Via: Washington's Top News

President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance has reverberated across the Democratic Party, forcing lawmakers to grapple with a crisis that could upend the presidential election and change the course of American history. The Democratic president has signaled he has no intention of […]


Emerging Tech & Modernization, Tech

10 ways AI can make IT more productive

July 2, 2024

Via: CIO

Every IT leader wants to build a productive organization. AI is ready to help. When it comes to maximizing productivity, IT leaders can turn to an array of motivators, including regular breaks, free snacks and beverages, workspace upgrades, mini contests, […]


Policy, State & Local

Louisiana governor vetoes political deepfakes bill

July 1, 2024

Via: StateScoop

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has vetoed a bill that would have made it illegal to deceive voters through the use of artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes. While similar legislation outlawing the use of deceptive audio, images and videos for political purposes has […]


Federal, Policy

Will recent Supreme Court rulings ‘devastate the functioning of the federal government?’

July 1, 2024

Via: Government Executive

The Supreme Court in recent days has issued a series of rulings that collectively have the potential to neuter a broad array of federal agencies, or tie them up in endless litigation that prevents them from carrying out their missions. […]


Federal, Policy

Social Security in line for half-billion dollar cut in House GOP funding bill

June 28, 2024

Via: Government Executive

House GOP appropriators have proposed a $450 million cut to the Social Security Administration’s administrative budget, in a move that Democrats warn will worsen the agency’s customer service crisis. The cuts are tucked into the fiscal 2025 Labor, Health and […]


Energy & Environment, Industry

A signature Biden law aimed to boost renewable energy. It also helped a solar company reap billions

June 26, 2024

Via: Washington's Top News

As he campaigned for the presidency, Joe Biden promised to spend billions of dollars to “save the world” from climate change. One of the largest players in the solar industry was ready. Executives, officials and major investors in First Solar, […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

NPU vs. GPU: What’s the Difference?

June 25, 2024

Via: TechSpot

Today, hardware and software applications of AI have advanced to become purpose-built for optimizing artificial intelligence and neural network operations. These include neural processing units (NPUs), which are often compared to graphics processing units (GPUs) in terms of their ability […]


Editorial

Future-Ready Governance: Embracing Speed and Technology in Public Services

June 25, 2024

Via: Mary Gamet

With environmental and societal changes happening rapidly worldwide, governments need to speed up their response time. Besides less tedious bureaucracy, there is a much deeper motivation to accelerate government workflows: faster services save lives. Just think of the tragic, global-warming-fueled […]


Cybersecurity

Understanding APIs and how attackers abuse them to steal data

June 24, 2024

Via: CSO Online

Properly securing APIs will help your organization defend against cyberattacks, drive operational efficiencies, satisfy audit and compliance requirements and enable innovation. Simply put, APIs (short for application programming interface) are how machines, cloud workloads, automation and other non-human entities communicate […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

Intel confirms Lunar Lake AI laptop CPUs will launch September 2024

June 24, 2024

Via: TechSpot

Intel’s confirmation comes just days after Taiwanese publication Digitimes reported a delay in the shipping date for the Lunar Lake lineup. In a statement refuting the claim, Intel told Chinese tech site Benchlife that its upcoming AI processors have “not […]


Education, Industry

Education Department official says they are making fixes on the FAFSA at a ‘rapid pace’

June 24, 2024

Via: Government Executive

Though the new version of the form to apply for federal financial student aid has had its fair share of highly publicized hiccups, Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal says the department has made a lot of progress in the […]


Cybersecurity, Federal, Policy

US bans Kaspersky Labs over national security concerns

June 21, 2024

Via: CSO Online

The popular antivirus software vendor will be prohibited from selling its software within the US or providing updates to software already in use. The Biden administration has reached a decision to block all new sales of Kaspersky Labs’ products and […]


Policy, State & Local

Florida mayor resigns with mass email to residents alleging corruption in small-town government

June 20, 2024

Via: Fox News

A Florida mayor abruptly resigned after outlining a pattern of “corruptive behavior” throughout the small town’s government in an explosive letter to all its residents last Friday. “What is going on with this small town is all wrong,” now-former Madeira Beach Mayor […]


Cybersecurity

How Cybersecurity Can Steer Organizations Toward Sustainability

June 19, 2024

Via: Dark Reading

Inadequate cybersecurity architecture can cause irreparable damage to an organization, which is why boards and C-suite executives are heeding recommendations to implement policies and procedures to mitigate risk. In addition, boardrooms are also paying attention to other hot topics, including […]


Federal, Policy

Immigrant families rejoice over Biden’s expansive move toward citizenship, while some are left out

June 19, 2024

Via: Washington's Top News

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe Biden unveiled a highly expansive plan to extend legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens but, inevitably, some were left out. Claudia Zúniga, 35, married in 2017, or […]


Cybersecurity

Three ways AI is raising the stakes around endpoint security

June 18, 2024

Via: CIO

Over the last few years, AI adoption has grown exponentially. But with it comes a number of risks around endpoint security. Learn what they are and how you can protect against these new threats. AI has made endpoint security even […]


Federal, Policy

Republicans fume over report part of $2.8B Afghan humanitarian funding went to Taliban

June 17, 2024

Via: Fox News

House Republicans are fuming at the Biden administration over reports that tens of millions of dollars of U.S. humanitarian aid to Afghanistan may have ended up in Taliban hands. During a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing last week, Rep. Brian […]


Networking & Wireless, Tech

Starlink will launch a portable ‘mini dish’ within the next few months

June 17, 2024

Via: BGR

SpaceX has been working hard to expand its Starlink internet service offerings, and now it looks as if the company is set to bring even more users into the fold. That push comes in the form of a new ultra-portable […]